University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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Tne Unity of the Sckool System Page Fourteen o n NLY in recent years have people come to realize fully that the Public School System of the State includes the University. In our newness and while everyone had come from some other state they went back in their thinking to the old college. Loyalty to alma mater left little room in their thinking for Wyoming ' s struggling schools. But time works wonders. As the second generation of native born students come on Wyoming is home and her interests are our interests. Happy are the states in which the schools constitute a single unified system, from the first grade through the college and professional schools. As said by Ex-president Hutch- ings, of Michigan. The state Universities are the result of the educational consciousness of the central and greater west. They are not the result of accident but are the result of constructive thinkmg. They are the crown of the public school system. The success of the common- wealth depends largely upon its vision in dealing with its university. On this theory, just as naturally as the elementary grades lead into the high school, just so naturally the high school leads into the college. On this theory, the state may spend its resources as freely for one part of the system as for any other but if this theory be not right, then there is no justification for any appropriations whatsoever for higher education. Happily, Wyoming has definitely aligned herself with those greater commonwealths where the truths set out above have been recognized from the beginning. Happily, too, Wyoming has followed them further in that she also has maintained an undivided university. The whole is always greater and stronger than any one of its parts. The segregation of the colleges that go to make up a university and the consequent dissipation due to an inevitably increased budget has been consistently and successfully resisted by Illinois, Wis- consin, Nebraska, California and some others that are, as a result, outstandingly meritorious. Judging the future by the past, what may not the university become? Hope runs high as one thinks of the possibilities. Education is to be Wyoming ' s glory. Her resources make it possible. The public schools of which the university is an essential part, will continue to receive that generous consideration from the people ' s representatives, sitting in legislative sessions, that they have enjoyed in the past. More and more the University of Wyoming will not only complete the academic work that the state provides for its students but it will increasingly be the service arm of the state in all of the technical and scientific work that it is called upon to promote. AVEN NELSON, President.